Testing Seed Is
Important Task
Ordinary Unglazed News-
paper Cut Into Strips Is
Found Useful.
Recent experiments at University
farm with newspaper testers have de.
veloped speedy and cheap methods of
testing seed, particularly seed corn,
Uce Wet Paper.
“Ordinary unglazed newspaper may
be torn or cut into ahout 8
inches wide and 12 to 14 inches long,”
strips
gays H. K. Wilson, assistant agron-
omist of the Minnesota
station. “About
experiment
six sheets paper
It is
The
by kneading it into a wet roll.
manner
About
the same
thick-
is placed
several
nesses of soaked newspaper
and then
The ends
loosely and the roll
tied
require a lid
down
“This Jar does not
should be turned
set in a warm place. A
placed under one edge will
air circulation. It is
any further attention to
until the results
Inter,
Carefully Tested Plan,
“This plan was carefully compared
with the plan of placing a lid on
upside
small
per-
unnecessary
are taken
use Doan’s Pills.
I'he secretions were
HOR Using
Too Much Competition
Many on the Road
“What kind of a car have you?"
“Or, a You know-—rur
then stop.”
i
' { “nN aur ife get cold the moun
jar and punching a hole In it for alr, Did your wife get cold on the mour
| which has been recommended in some |
| quarters, and gave 9 per cent higher
and much more vigorous |
tain? She Is so hoarse!” “No, she runabout.
wanted to talk
the echo down.” thout a mile,
| germination se
seedlings.
| Manure and Flies Are
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Drawing by Ray Walters.
8 ITHIN the next few weeks
an army of 100,000 men
and women visit.
the
will be
ing every home In
United States and
geries of questions which
a i
ale for
ASKINg
every one of us must an-
answered
questions
sSwer, or nave
for us. Those
are the following:
Name and
color or race, age,
widowed or di
7 relationship to
head of family ; home owned or rented,
free or mortgaged: literacy, place of
birth and that of parents: citizenship,
ability to speak English, whether em-
ployed and trade or profession, wheth-
er veteran of any American war.
But lest you should feel that the
asking of these questions is a meddle.
some interference in your private af-
fairs, let it be stated at once that the
man or woman who calls at your home
and asks you these questions is a census
enumerator, engaged in the huge task
of taking the 15th decennial cen-
sus of population In the United States.
in accordance with Article 1 of the
Constitution of the United States, hat
You are required by law to give true
answers to the questions and that
there is no real reason whatsoever
why you should not answer them. For
¥ou have this assurance from Dr. Wil
liam M. Steuart, chief of the bureau
of the census, in regard to it:
address, sex,
single,
married,
yorced :
“No citizen need hesitate to answer
the questions asked by the enumera-
tors. The facts, so far as the Indi-
vidual is concerned, will be safe In the
hands of the government and will ney-
er be disclosed. No need have
the slightest fear that his personal or
business secrets will ever be disclosed
to friend or foe. The oath of the enu-
merator requires that he shall keep
secret the answers to queries. If he
does not, he is guilty of a crime, and
if detected there is not the slightest
doubt as to what will happen. The
law will be Invoked and enforced to
the limit.”
The 1930 census will be the greatest
“counting of noses” in the history of
the world. When it is completed Uncle
Sam will know just how many more
children he has than he had in 1920,
As to what the population of the
United States will be, Doctor Steuart
says:
“It will be more than 121,000,000
and less than 125,000,000. We are cer.
tain as to this, because we know that
the population of the continental Unit.
ed States Is now Increasing at the rate
of about 1,400,000 persons each year,
or, to put it another way, at the ap-
proximate rate of one person every
twenty seconds, These totals are
made up of the annual excess of
births over deaths, which amounts to
about 1,150,000, and the excess of Im-
migration over emigration, which gives
us an additional 240000 each year,
The 1930 census will show that our
people are thirty times as many ns
were in the country In 1790 and near-
ly twice as many as In 1800, or only
forty years ago.
“History records no instance in
which population has so rapidly in-
creased as has been the case in the
United States. Neither is it of record
that the increase in population has
anywhere else been accomplished by
one
go great an Improvement In the com-
fort and well-being of the people gen-
erally.
“In 1790 there were 4.5 persons for
square mile of what was then
the United States. The 1930 c¢
I believe, will forty
each square mile, or nearly ten times
more than at the time of the first cen-
sus. In 1700 there
the United States with more than 8000
Then
only 3
each
show people to
were six cities in
the cities were re-
sponsible per cent of the
population; America In those days was
truly agricultural. In 1020 the cities
with more than 8,000 inhabitants num-
bered 024 and their population was 44
per cent of the national total, Add to
these the little towns and villages of
less than 8,000 people and we find that
in 1920 the urbar population was a lit.
tle more than half the for the
Union.”
inhabitants,
f
LOT
total
In accomplishing the huge task
which faces Uncle Sam's army of cen-
enumerators, they will visit not
only 30000000 homes but also more
than almost 200.000
manufacturing plants, and in addition
they will compile data concerning
5.000000 farms, 14000 mines and
quarries, 100.000 irrigation and drain-
age projects, The reason for this is
that 15th decennial census will
be not only a count of population but
also a comprehensive study of the
commerce and industry of the na-
tion, including, for first time,
a census of distribution. In the
last named it is hoped that there will
be found at least some of the reasons
for an estimated annual loss of $10.
000,000,000 in the process of placing
commodities in the hands of the ulti-
mate consumer,
“The 1030 census,’ Doctor
Steuart, “is going to be, we hope and
believe, the most nearly perfect tabu.
lation of population, business and oth-
er basic facts ever taken in history,
I say this with the fact in mind that
nearly 3,000 years have passed since
the first census was made—when King
David set out to number the people
of Israel and Judah. It took him nine
months and twenty days to do the
Job, and among the things he found
out was that there were in Israel and
in Judah about 1300000 waliant men
that drew the sword,’
“The first census of the United
States was taken 139 years ago. The
United States was first among the
countries to make a regular periodieal
enumeration of its Inhabitants a part
of the fundamental law,
“The first American census, taken in
1790, was very limited in scope and
was directed by the United States
marshals, They were allowed thir
teen months on the job, and when the
totals were added up our population
was about 4000000. That census re.
lated solely to population. The name
of the head of the family was taken,
together with the number of persons
In each family, classified as free or
siave., The whites, who were free,
were classified as “free whites” as
male or female, and the free whites
males as over or under sixteen years
of age. That was about all there wns
to it. The marshals who supervised
the 1790 count numbered only 17, the
enumerators 600, and you will appre.
sus
«000,000 stores,
the
the
ae
says
FAN
DR. WILLIAIT IT. SITTARY
the lat
are told
what
ciate
the ent
that
the
ney
Consus
when you
1950
than
who will take
ators
will be an army of more 106) OF
ally de-
that
and
tion of a
srarding economi
has
than in |
quently the director of the censn
now by law required to enumerat
space of one month more
and at the
time obtain extensive informa
tion about farms, 14.005)
mines, 100,000 irrigation and drainage
projects, the facts of employment and
unemployment affecting
peaple, and also the trade, profession
or particular kind of work
every person of working age in
nation. Quite a job for four weeks,
Yet it can and will be com-
the
120,000,000 people same
yery
6.000 (00)
%
is it not?
pleted in the allotted thirty
With the exception of a compara.
tively few, when the vast total is con-
sidered, the original records of every
family enumerated in the 1790 and
subsequent census are on file in
census bureau, according to Mr. Steu.
art. The missing records have been
lost or destroyed by accident. How.
ever, file on John Hancock has been
preserved and his family was reported
days.
over sixteen years of age, three white
females and seven other free persons,
not white.” It is presumed the seven
free persons listed as “not white” were
negro servants,
In the taking of the 1860 census,
each person was for the first time
asked to give the value of his or her
real and personal property. The ree-
ords for Illinois show that Abraham
Lincoln's family comprised Mr. Lin-
coln, his wife, his three sons and a
boy, fourteen years old, named Philip
Dinkell. Mr. Lincoln sald he was
worth $17,000, of which $5,000 was
the value of his real estate, the re-
mainder being personal property. In
the same census James Duchanan ligt.
ed his household as consisting of him-
self, his niece, Miss Harriet Lane, and
eleven employees and servants, all of
the latter being of foreign birth.
The system of Individual enumer
ation, was adopted at the census of
1850, and at the same time a number
of new classifications were added
literacy, school attendance, occupa-
tion, place of birth, age, ete.
well-known fact that
are not
It is a flies
breed In manure and that they
ance hut also a menace to
is equa known tha
is left
corn is
age of |
fermentati
Hor
manure
flown
ter mor
is no better place
the pasture it may
rease
Tz
in Much Needed Protein
Some tests which have
3 »
the feeding value of imma
by the Wisconsin depart
ture grasses
ment of agri-
' $ ‘ 4 £5 ¥ rile ha
culture indicate that many peopie have
failed to appreciate the relatively
of the first
over which
annlyzed showed ns high
in on the basis
contained. Some sampics
olin
HP
f timothy and cl
HER af
i wore
as 2X) t of prot
per cent
ig es of immature
ress ran equa as high, while
f immature rye was found
a sample of in 3
to have 24 per cent of protein, Mature
timothy hay
of protein and rye straw
but little protein when mature,
Such figures as would
cate that when grain is fed to cows on
| pasture during the spring and early
summer, such feed would not need to
be ns high in protein as is sometimes
Necessary.
has only about 6 per cent
would have
these indi-
| considered
| #RRLBREERRURBER RL TRRRRELRR
Agricultural Notes
Muddy water Indicates wasted
means,
. 0»
Good land
in value,
- » .
Keep your soll and your soil will
keep you.
» . -
Cod liver oil
broilers the last two
marketing. It taints
the odor of the oil.
* » -
weeks
the
When sweet clover is being seeded
with a mixture of grass seed, it is es
sential that the seed be inoculated.
. * -
A tractor that is idle in winter
makes Its owner no money. On most
well-managed farms there are winter
Jobs to do, such as sawing wood,
grinding feed, baling hay, building,
terraces, ete.
. . .
Mulch paper is said to be worth
while for certain early crops of high
market value and in some home gare
dens where it is desired to eliminate
cultivation and to utilize space to the
best advantage.
» » .
New Zealand spinach fs harvested
a8 soon as the tips of the branches
may be eut back about two inches,
After a few days new branches, bear
ing leaves, wili be put out. A con
stant supply until frost Is possible
with this treatment.
breath tell
its gentle
late a cl
children
the system
doctor will
Great Water Project
mags
work for
have In
tributaries
mans
supply
use it
wer,
for recre
conservation
district created to
finan
government
will seek the
federal
News,
honest is sorry
in the family
wid your chile
is safe
effectiv
at Dignified Banquets
in Holls
wom for
an Australian
iting Char!
id not recognize
lian introduced
beside
{ startled,
ling, “1
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Capper’'s Weekly.
Busy Woman
Friend
present ?
Her Dad
Old
EROPLANE
pilots tell us
that their cour-
age, their whole
attitude toward
flying, varies from
day to day, with
the way they feel.
If they feel full of
pep, healthy, they
can try anything
~nothing fright-
ens them. Their
nerve is unshak-
en; their skill
keen; their flying
is machine-like
in its perfection.
It is an entirely
different story,
however, if they
This is the lee-
son we can learn
from airmen. It
is the lesson that
points to Nujol—
the simple, natu-
ral, normal way
without the use of
drugs or medi-
cines to keep the
body internally
clean of the poi-
sons that slow it
up. Nujol is pure,
tasteless, color-
less an clear water,
It forms no habit;
it cannot hurt
even a baby,
See how the
sunshine floods
wake up in the
morning feeling
sick. down in the
mouth. Then fly-
ing becomes a
into your life
when you are
really well. Get a
bottle of Nujol in
its sealed pack-
real danger.
What is the matter with these brave
people when they are not up to par?
The natural poisons in their bodies
have not been swept away. They are
allowing their brains tobe clouded and
dulled by poisons which should not
be permitted to remain in the body,
age at any drug
store. It costs only a few cents
and it makes you feel like a million
dollars. Find out for yourself what
Nujol will do for you this very
night. You can be at effi
ciency and happy all the time, Get a
bottle today.